Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

247. One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV

248. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XIII

249. A double error sometimes sets us right.

Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)

Festus (Festus), Bk. XXIV

250. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)

Speech on the Indian Bill. Nov. 1783

251. Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act II, Scene II

252. Power is the grim idol that the world adores.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Political Essays. On the Connexion between
Toad-Eaters and Tyrants